Word: recorditis
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD is perfectly willing to convene committees and issue reports to correct its pathetically low proportion of minority and women faculty. Unfortunately, it has a poor track record for following up on its pronouncements and posturing with concrete, sustained actions...
...Treasury Department, through Rep. Chalmers Wylie of Ohio, senior Republican on the House Banking Committee, promptly distanced itself from the latest proposal involving the troubled savings industry in which a post-Depression record of more than 200 insolvent institutions were closed last year...
Both had been recruited. Landau as the national high school career record-holder for scoring, had played since seventh grade. Cutone began playing in 10th grade...
...Committee was not unanimously for him." Still, Krenz is regarded by the other 20 members of the Politburo as the best they have to offer. Krenz, who is more animated and garrulous than Honecker, is also better attuned to the television age. He ordered up a camera crew to record his exit from the Central Committee session at which he was promoted, and six hours after Honecker's resignation, Krenz addressed the nation on live...
...Monday to post an 88.12-point gain for the day. Then on Thursday, the anniversary of the 1987 crash, the Government reported that the Consumer Price Index rose a modest 0.2% in September, propelling the market to a 39.55- point gain. The Dow closed at 2689.14 Friday, up a record 119.88 points for the week. In Tokyo the Nikkei index lost 647.33 points Monday but surged more ! than 1,000 points in the next four days to finish the week...